Editorial: Vaccine supply flaws fuel price gouging concern
The editorial argues that flu vaccine shortages stem from delivery failures and profiteering. It cites rising prices, a fledgling black market, and niche distributors taking advantage as health systems struggle to immunize. It condemns medical price gouging as unethical and warns of potential harm from greed.
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Lawrence-Douglas County
Sue Ellen Christian
The
Chicago Tribune
Janet Teeters
Advocate
Chicago
Christian
Health Department
American Medical Assn
Dolph Simons Sr. and Journal World leadership eras
Dolph Simons Sr. led the Journal World as publisher from 1944 to 1962 and served as editor from 1950 to 1979, shaping the paper’s direction across mid-20th century Kansas journalism. His tenure intertwined editorial vision with business leadership, anchoring the paper through decades of change.
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Dolph Simons Sr
Flection bitterness lingers in disputed elections history
Carl P. Leubsdorf reviews close 1974 New Hampshire Senate and 1984 Indiana House contests, detailing how partisan majorities decided seat outcomes after recounts and disputed ballots. He notes lasting bitterness from Democrats seating Durkin and McCloskey over McIntyre, with echoes into modern partisan recalls of the Indiana case.
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Florida
New Hampshire
U.S. Senate
Indiana
U.S
House of Representatives
Congress
Louis Wyman
John Durkin
Wyman
Durkin
Senate
Donn Tibbets
William Loeb
Commission
Senate Democrats
Frank McCloskey
Richard McIntyre
House
McCloskey
Indiana House
Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
Dallas Morning News
Return Home Theme Echoes In Seasonal TV Reflections
Leonard Pitts Jr notes Ed and other shows about returning to roots mirror a wider urge for belonging as holidays loom. He cites programs like Ed Providence Judging Amy Normal Ohio and NBCs Ed to argue roots and community offer wish fulfillment amid growing urban detachment.
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Schnook
Stuckeyville
Ohio
NBC
Census Bureau
Leonard Pitts Jr
The
Miami Herald
Public Forum Calling out Florida election math and Bush contrasts
A reader argues the Florida vote margin is statistically tiny and cannot be resolved, saying a hidden cache is unlikely. The letter condemns Bush as misrepresenting will of the people, citing national and Florida results, tax cuts, environment, reproductive rights, and the Supreme Court in a call for Al Gore as next president.
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Florida
Bush
Gore
John Heider
Lawrence
George W. Bush
al Gore
Supreme Court
Sheldon Whitten-Vile
Old Hometown Projects and Historic Notes From Lawrence
Old hometown mentions Bob Gould installing the citys first solar heating system with two new solar houses planned. Water chemists report sodium content has declined to safer levels and should continue to drop. Haskell Institute students win Thanksgiving float with a Mayflower replica built by masonry students. A 1900 Lawrence World note recalls a bank robbery at Sedan by Cravens with a failed escape and eventual penitentiary sentence.
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Bob Gould
Law
Haskell Institute
Lawrence World
Cravens
Sedan
Uew
Watkins Community Museum
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al Bonner
Joe Lewis
Dolph Simons I
Dan Simons
New Ventures
Donna Wiley
H.R./Personne
Tom Hornbaker
Dallas Dolan
Ed Clambrone
the World Company
Sixth
Kan
Douglas County
Kansas
P.O
Lawrence, Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Manchester Union
Peter Pan
Hampshirires
Legos
Carl Leubsdorf
Cleubsdorf
Dallasnews.com
Leonard Pitts
Leonardpitts
Mindspring
Journal World
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